"Here, dearest Eve, " he exclaims, "here is food. " "Well, " answered she, with the germ of a housewife stirring within her, "we have been so busy to-day that a picked-up dinner ...

A bodily disease may be but a symptom of some ailment in the spiritual past.

A bodily disease which we look upon as whole and entire within itself, may, after all, be but a symptom of some ailment in the spiritual part.

A grave, wherever found, preaches a short and pithy sermon to the soul.

And what is more melancholy than the old apple-trees that linger about the spot where once stood a homestead, but where there is now only a ruined chimney rising our of a grassy ...

Caresses, expressions of one sort or another, are necessary to the life of the affections as leaves are to the life of a tree. If they are wholly restrained, love will die at th ...

Dr. Johnson's morality was as English an article as a beefsteak.

Every crime destroys more Edens than our own.

Every individual has a place to fill in the world, and is important, in some respect, whether he chooses to be so or not.

From principles is derived probability, but truth or certainty is obtained only from facts.